"A child's learning is the function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher." James Coleman, 1972

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Matt Ubelhor, the Walmart/Amway Family Greeder

by Doug MartinWith $106,000 of in-kind contributions from Mitch Daniels’
school privatizing Aiming Higher PAC (page
7), $13,000 of in-kind contributions (page
11) from Brian Bosma, a $1,500 direct
deposit from Mike Pence’s committee (page
10), and $53,000 (page
8) in hard cash from the anti-critical thinking Indiana Chamber’s Indiana Business for
Responsible Government PAC, Matt Ubelhor, Indiana's state rep. from district 62, in 2010 fed his pockets and his ego
with $61,000 of the Walton/DeVos/hedge fund Hoosiers for Economic Growth PAC
money (page
7) and officially became a Walmart/Amway politician.

It was a good year for the Hoosiers for Economic Growth PAC, with mega-bucks pouring in from Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne, defrauder Jerry Slusser (both mentioned in Hoosier School Heist), and others. And Ubelhor's cozy relationship with the chief funders of the corporate
school movement in Indiana has not ended.In December 2013, the Hoosiers for Economic
Growth PAC handed Ubelhor $500 (page
9) more.

Mitch, Mike, Brian, the Chamber, and others adore the
handsome Republican from Bristow, Indiana, but Ubelhor is a true Walmart/Amway
Republican, first and foremost.

Look for more dough coming to Ubelhor from this group soon.But beware.They have changed the PAC’s name to
the Hoosiers for Quality Education Political Action Committee in an attempt to throw
muckslingers like me off track, but it won’t work.

I know whose bed Matt Ubelhor sleeps in
every single night and what corporate privatizers he welcomes at his door.

A national expert on the corporate and theocratic assault against public education, Doug Martin is the author of Hoosier School Heist, the book which exposes the corruption, scandals, and campaign financing behind so-called school reform in Indiana and elsewhere. OrderHoosier School Heist and get the facts.